Summer is here. And so are new improvements to Boomerang

We released some awesome new features last night (6/21) to Boomerang for Gmail. You should see the changes the next time you load Gmail. If you do not see the changes, try restarting your browser. Here are some details:

Streamlined Boomerang and Send Later Menus

The “At a specific time” window is now integrated into the menu. We hope that this will make it easier for you to specify a custom time and reduce a couple mouse clicks for you.

Track responses from the Boomerang menu — not just while sending a message.

You can now track response to any message – in your inbox, sent mail, or anywhere else – and Boomerang it only if you don’t get a response. This was one of the most popular feature requests from Boomerang customers.

Did you know there’s a Boomerang menu at the top right of the Gmail screen?

It’s now a drop down menu, including ways for you to view and manage your scheduled messages, and tell your friends about Boomerang.

Schedule messages from the standalone Compose window.

This feature was requested often by Boomerang customers. So those of you who made the request, this is for you!

You can also now specify a custom date and time to track responses to a message you are sending. Before you were limited to choose one of the default time options, now you can choose any date, time to your heart content!

Improved support for multiple accounts sign-in.

My favorite feature of this update is that Boomerang no longer requires me to select which account I want to use every time I switch between my Gmail and Google Apps email addresses. It knows which account I am in and maps the right account.

Manage Boomerang page improvements

We added links to open up individual scheduled messages in new browser windows.

Nice updates to the menus. Your product just keeps getting better and better. The multiple account update is a big one for me. I’ve bought a subscription already, but never ‘applied’ it to one of my email addresses since you’re still in beta, but I’d love to be able to all of them somehow. I basically boucne between 3 email addresses for various purposes and would like to have Boomerang on all of them. Keep up the great work.

Many thanks for these changes, and for your fantastic plug-in. The change I’ve been waiting for is offline support, so I can compose messages in Gmail Offline and schedule them to send later. Is this in the pipeline?

I thought it would be kind of nice that the “specific time” option is now in the main dropdown, but it doesn’t let you manually edit the time unless you reselect the date first. I always send at a specific time and usually only need to change the day or part of the hour. All I wanted to do this time was change one number so this doesn’t really save me any mouse clicks. Maybe in the next release you could make that field editable without having to reselect the date?

First of all, I love Boomerang! I’m having a little difficulty since the most recent upgrade, though. When navigating through messages using the j and k keyboard shortcuts, the Boomerang drop down menu disappears. It then reappears on the next message opened via a shorcut. So if you keep scrolling through messages with shortcuts, you will only have the Boomerang drop down on every other message.

Let me just say that Boomerang has revolutionised my worklfow – love it. Since the new update the ‘Send at specific time’ option is really buggy on Firefox 5. When I chose this option it is there however when I click on the calendar icon to automatically be able to choose a specific date, nothing – no popup, no option, nothing. I can enter the specific date manually but this actually creates more clicks and more work when dealing with a large number of emails. On the old version of Boomerang it simply popped up as a new window and could select the dtaes from the calendar there. Anyone else experiencing similar problems?

I love Boomerang. Is it possible somehow to note on the email header the currently set date it will boomerang back? Also, if a message has boomeranged back and is not set to come back again can the label be removed automatically. It is sometimes confusing to know if an email is rescheduled to come back again because it still has the boomerang label. Removing the label will remove that uncertainty.